Casey Throwback Mills
20 Years Ago This Tuesday, The Da Vinci Code Made $760 Million on Religious Controversy and Tom Hanks's Haircut — Hollywood Will Never Make This Movie Again
On May 19, 2006, Ron Howard and Tom Hanks released a $125 million prestige-tier adaptation of an airport thriller, watched the Vatican call for a boycott, and rode the controversy to $760 million worldwide. Twenty years later, the entire economic and cultural machine that made The Da Vinci Code possible has been dismantled — and we're looking at a fossil.